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CURRENT Projects
Get Money Savvy
Get Money Savvy is a recent project which came about after the
end of the My Money Project (see below). There are 12
Young NCB members who are part of the Get Money Savvy Campaign
Group which started in December 2011. They are developing an
advocacy toolkit for children and young people to campaign for
quality personal financial education in their schools, which is due
to be launched later this year.
They also have a petition, Get Money Savvy,
and the original group produced a personal finance
education guide for young people called Minted. The contents of
Minted was informed by the wider Young NCB membership though a
survey, which identified what children and young people want to
know about when it comes to managing their money. If you would like
to download Minted please scroll down to the resources section of
the My Money project below.
We'll keep you up to date with any more news from the group on
these pages.
NCB Research Advisers
The NCB Research Centre carries out lots of different research
and evaluation projects about, and with, children and young people.
We produce reports and publications, including some written with
young people, and provide advice and support on how to involve
children and young people in research. To help us with out work, we
have recruited 18 young people aged 10-17 from all over England to
be Young NCB Research
Advisers. You can find out what this group has been doing by
reading the newsletters below.
Read their latest newsletters:
My Money
What is the My Money project?
The My Money project was set up to help schools teach their
pupils about how to look after their money when they are growing up
and after they leave school and become an adult. This will be
taught through Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE)
education in schools.
The sort of things that the My Money project addressed to help
teach children and young people are:
How to spend money wisely
How and why to save money what we can do to avoid getting into
debt
How to manage a home including how and why we pay bills and
taxes
- How to take care of a family
- About careers and what becoming ‘employable’ means
- Why being rich won’t necessarily make you happy
Who ran the project?
The project was run jointly by a group of
organisations:
- The PSHE Association – an organisation which helps teachers and
other people working in PSHE to give children and young people good
PSHE lessons.
- EDComms – specialists in educational communication
- Personal Finance Education Group - an educational charity who
aim to make sure that all young people leaving school have the
confidence, skills and knowledge in financial matters to take part
fully in society.
- National Children’s Bureau (NCB) – working to improve the
well-being of all children and young people in England across all
areas of their lives.
- Young NCB – which is part of NCB and gives children and young
people the opportunities to speak out and take action on issues
that affect them. The My Money Young Advisers Group will be run by
Young NCB.
Resources
The My Money Young Advisers have produced this information and
guidance to tell you more about personal finance education. This
include advice on saving, paying for college or university managing
money in your job and information about the different types of
bank accounts you can get as well as much more!
Please click on the link below.
MINTED [PDF 1.89 MB]
Reports
My Money Young Advisers
Residential: 13-14 September 2008 [DOC 1.3MB]
Young
Advisers Residential Report June 09 2009 [PDF 771KB]
My Money Young
Advisers Residential report September
2009 [PDF 869KB]
My Money Young Advisors
Residential report December 2009 [DOC 627KB]
My Money Young Advisors
Residential report October 2010 [PDF 477KB]
press cuttings of our members
Past Reports
YNCB's Fear of Crime Survey 2010
In April 2009, Young NCB members chose the priorities they would
focus on for the following two years. One of the priorities the
membership chose was Youth, Crime and Prevention. In October 2009,
the Young NCB Advisory Group chose to explore issues relating to
children and young people’s fear of crime.
At their January 2010 meeting, the Advisory Group began looking
at different areas of children and young people’s fear of crime
that they would like to focus on, working together to create the
very first draft of a survey that they wanted to send to Young NCB
members, NCB networks, and other children and young people.
The results were collated together in time for the July 2010
Young NCB Advisory Group meeting, where the Advisory Group got to
look at the responses and plan their next steps in this
priority.
Many drafts of the survey went back and forth between the
Advisory Group and NCB’s Research Centre, and in June 2010, the
survey went live. Due to the type of questions that were being
asked, and to make sure that we didn’t worry younger children and
young people taking part in the survey, it was agreed that the
survey would only be open to those aged 14 years old and over. In
total, 153 responses were received from the age range 14-18+. Of
those who responded 27% were Young NCB members, and 73%
non-members. Some young people didn’t answer every question in the
survey.
It is important for the reader to be aware that the young people
who responded to our survey are not representative of all young
people aged 14 years and over in England. So, their views about
crime might not be the same as other young people in England.
The results were collated together in time for the July 2010
Young NCB Advisory Group meeting, where the Advisory Group got to
look at the responses and plan their next steps in this
priority.
You can view the full
report here.
Archived Projects and Reports
NHS Care Record
Young NCB members help design leaflet for
other children and young people. - visit the
page
The Big Idea
Hear from one of the Big Idea steering group
members about being involved in this project. - visit the page
11 Million - Recruitment
Young NCB were asked if we could help the Office of the
Children’s Commissioner OCC, Now known as 11million in recruiting
new members of staff to their organisation. - visit the page
Children and young people’s views on patient safety
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
asked the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) to meet with children,
young people and parents to get their views on patient safety. We
held four events in different locations in England and one in Wales
in January and February 2007.
Climate Change
The Greater London Authority (GLA) wanted to
find out what children and young people’s views were on climate
change.
2007 - read the
report [PDF 407KB]
Curriculum Review
Young people’s views and opinions on how
diversity issues are covered across the national Curriculum.
2006 - read the report [PDF
337KB]
Options for Excellence
2006 - read the report [PDF
199KB]
Right2Reply
2006 - read the report [PDF
368KB]